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it's good to have you with us u.s. president donald trump has threatened to pull the u.s. out of the world health organization and permanently cut off funding to the director general of the trumpet demanded improvements based on his criticisms within 30 days he accused the u.n. agency of being too close to china. a smear campaign it accuses him of shirking america's responsibilities to supporting global health. final decision and folly to fund the w r even before trump issued his incendiary letter to the world health organization

it was clear he was about to attack. but i think they've done a. very sad job in the last period of time. and again the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of china. china centric to put it nicer but they're a puppet of china those comments at a white house event were quickly followed by a trump tweet he linked to a letter accusing the w.h.o. of making a series of missteps over its response to the pandemic in it he warns that if the world health organization does not commit to major substantial improvements within the next 30 days i will make my temporary freeze of united states funding to the w.h.o. permanent and reconsider our membership in the organization trump's ultimatum came just a few hours after the w.h.o.

announced an independent review i will initiate an independent evaluation at the earliest appropriate moment to review experience gain and lessons learned and to make recommendations to improve national and global fund to meet preparedness and response but this is about more than just the world health organization donald trump who has been criticized for his own handling of the pandemic publicly blames china for trying to cover up the outbreak china's foreign ministry has already hit back accusing trump of trying to mislead the public in order to smear china. with us now from singapore is professor david fisher he was in china this year as part of a double team to look at china's coronavirus response professor fisher who had praised china for the way it reacted to the crisis and now it's being called

a puppet of china by donald trump is the chinese puppet. not by any stretch of the imagination the w.i. joe's an evidence based organization the takes darter and analyze it and makes decisions based on that. it couldn't afford to behaving with any sort of favoritism to any country but then it's quite a journey just a few months back the dublin ritual was praising china for its response you're in fact part of the team that was on the ground in just a few months later no it is the target of criticism from the united states for essential me not being hard enough on china. well there's no reason to be hard on on any country i don't think we should all be in this together. cha alan view is always blame the china china. my aide. made the diagnosis identified the outbreak. did the genome

sequencing created a test for the world all in lightning speed if you if you've ever been in an outbreak it's very confusing chaotic it's all very new getting you getting an understanding of what's happening while while everyone is running around and you know hospitals are getting overwhelmed it's all very difficult and as outbreak experts we believe that what china accomplished in that very short space of time and then to contain the virus within their own country with the measures taken was was truly stronger and i would move away from that belief the principle the accusation against china is they're trying not wasn't transparent and therefore valuable time was lost in communicating with the governor or troll do you agree with that. i think you need to understand that the w.i. joe is not the only one with early warning systems and sensing. in fact

probably the u.s. c.d.c. is is probably even better at a and identifying things through observing internet press their various discussions between technical groups. the u.s. is very sensitive to to outbreaks and emerging. illnesses across the world so so to say the role of the w.i. job was to tell. the u.s. to be aware i would have thought the u.s. would know that around the same time now the world a little bit on the right they're all trying to organizations member states or just agree to a comprehensive and independent review of the global response to the pandemic do you believe such review really can be impartial. i don't believe it was ever not going to happen and people are calling for further investigations into

the origin of the virus investigations into the early days of of communication investigations into the way the w.i. just managed this this is going to happen and i think the country's grandstanding over over making it happen there were so many reviews after the bowler out right and how this could be done better and could w.i. joe perform better it's it's probably the most scrutinized organization in the world and and there's no way there was not going to be a review of all these things but but the most important thing now is that we we we buckle down and get on with this outbreak response president fisher thank you so much for speaking to us and. let's take a look now at some other stories making news around the world germany's highest court has ruled that surveillance of online communications outside the country violates the constitution and its guarantee of the right to privacy and freedom of

the press the challenge was brought by 6 foreign journalists and the advocacy group reporters without borders. india has begun evacuating people along its eastern seaboard as it prepares for the arrival of a fear the storm cold is expected to hit india and others on wednesday with winds of up to 185 kilometers heavy rainfall and strong tidal waves. a group of labor unions has filed a complaint of systemic sexual harassment against the fast food giant donalds the unions say workers were abused at restaurants in countries including the us britain and australia the chain insists it does not control the working conditions in franchised outlets. the prime minister of resigned after facing months of accusations that he was involved in the killing of his ex-wife. announced his retirement on national t.v.

a strange wife was shot dead 2 days before his inauguration in 2070. finding people who have contracted covert 19 before they can spread the disease and tracing their contacts has become a priority for governments across the world scientists in south africa are developing and that helps track those contacts if the parks it could help make up for the shortfall in testing capacity that. music city farm market in cape town before the pandemic the farmers markets through 7000 visitors a day now just 700 arrived and they are only allowed to buy essential under strict procedures. this is what i'm doing today everybody comes to the market. i explain to them the reason i'm doing it which is creating in the case of. being

a notifiable disease the shoppers appear happy to cooperate i'm comfortable i understand why. and it's great that we can get to support like local pride here. and. the people by not getting. the idea is that if there's a case of coronavirus at the market authorities can warn others who may be affected by collecting people's names and contact details is an easy way to make contact tracing possible it is obviously not the most effective way and researchers at the university of cape town argue would make things easier and more effective. has overseen the development of the corvee id every participant can register online and will then receive a q.r. codes this can be saved to one smartphone or simply printed out as fewer than half of all south africans own a smartphone. i can now use the code the idea that if i'm

a very fine so let's say i'm a taxi operate our i'm a security guard i want to scan use s. yardbirds as they come in so you can. scan the barcode. it shows my name it should look my picture eventually it shows that i haven't been so off test that there's no information about whether i saw patrick covered from covert what has happened in the bank and isn't the app has centered your location to the wallet of the user and it simply has found the address of that user by looking at the q.r. code the data is not stored centrally to address privacy concerns the data is only stored on the user's phones if someone tests positive he or she can agree to sharing the anonymous data with the public health authorities and to one of the users who wear the same location. coordinates a team of $150.00 volunteers who develop the coby id app today they're presenting

their project in a vip sumi now to political decision makers from several african countries much about the research shows that in article content tracing to work we can we need to identify 60 percent of the patients as soon as they have symptoms and we need to find 50 percent of them contacts basically instantaneously if you take maybe even 456 days to figure out all the contacts that somebody was positive had and to to follow up with them you will be too slow to effect if least curb the spread of the virus there's still no indication as to whether south africa will introduce the as a nationwide project so for the time being research shows up planning to test it here in cape town. sport now and the return of the bombers leader after a 2 month break because of the koran of violence has prompted other top european leagues to ratchet up of their preparations english premier league teams can train in small groups from today while italian and spanish sides are also meeting up

again. everything is being disinfected at barcelona the spanish league is taking no chances but the sides have leno messi back on the training ground has raised hopes that matches without fans can restart in mid june. xina deems it damns rail madrid have also returned to team training for the 1st time since march. very good very good to be back on the pitch to work you know with. the boys. now we just need to wait for the games but it's very very happy the government's 1st ok a resumption just like in italy and in england where training in small groups has also now been allowed to start up again the plans for a premier league return behind closed doors have been in the works for weeks players have been spotted doing individual training but

a realistic start date for matches has been allusive they have been rather was over how much a resumption would expose players health and if games should be played at neutral then use to avoid home fans turning up outside stadiums the return of the bond as they grew at the weekend without fans and with strict guidelines not always followed by the players has put pressure on other european leagues to quickly copy germany's lead. but leagues including france have already scrapped their seasons and disadvantage clubs of threatened litigation in the wake of the bonders league is resumption the french government has defended the decision. it was important for me to give priority to the health and psychological well being of the players rather than economic considerations which in other countries have indeed taken precedence. a deep clean is needed if europe's biggest leagues are to salvage money spinning t.v.

deals they are making a step in the right direction. this is due to other news remember you can keep up to date with all the latest on our website.